There is a very interesting article at haaretz.com about life on a Moshav.  There has been a growing trend since the  mid 1990′s that is changing the rural landscape in Israel.

A quote from the article:

“These moshav homes have created an unusual architectural category in Israel, rather like a local version of estate homes. Since the mid-1990s, the traditional landscape of the moshavim in the center of the country has begun to be transformed by new residential buildings. Large, relatively inexpensive patrimonies attracted senior executives and business people, notably from high-tech, who wanted to trade urban bustle for a pastoral existence. Fields, orchards and greenhouses were gradually replaced by enormous mansions surrounded by cultivated gardens, swimming pools, tennis courts and a ranch-like setting for horses. The move to the countryside also bore a saliently romantic aspect, ostensibly drawing on the ethos of manual labor and the desire to be the owner of an iconic moshav landscape of cypresses and tilled soil”.

Read the entire article at haaretz.com

If you are interested in finding out about purchase opportunities in a Moshav, contact Lyle Plocher at lyle@buypropertyinisrael.com

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